DD California Home

The DD Southern California Home was designed by Peggy Dupuis, interior designer, Dale Naegle, Architect and her husband, a civil engineer and international builder.

The property with an ocean view and with a north west orientation and setting sun proved to be the source of inspiration for the home. With two stories, the contemporary home offers an amazing view from each room. There is also an spectacular roof terrace, where on a clear day you can view the coastline of Mexico.


Inside, the decoration and its furnitures are refined, “using blackened white, grey, graphite, black, stainless steel along with the use of solid oak wood furnitures, entry door and parquet floor. One of the centrepieces of this house is the 7 meter curved wall with decorative sand base red paint” which adds warmth to the house.

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Dinesen Sustainable Oak Flooring

In the current economic climate people are now more than ever looking to purchase products which have an reduced impact on the environment whilst also of a high quality. This wooden flooring from the Danish Manufacturer Dinesen meets all of these criteria.

For this family run company, quality is the most important feature as every single floor is custom made to fit each particular room.The wood is sourced from some of Europe’s best forests, where the trees are between 80 and 200 years old. All of these trees have been cared for throughout their existence. They are managed by the principles of “Dauerwald” which means promising sustainably productive, profitable, environmentally stable, biologically diverse and socially responsive forests, patterned after nature.

One of the most defining features of these planks is the fact that they are extremely long and wide. Dinesen offers its solid oak planks in widths of up to 50 centimetres and lengths up to 6 meters.

With such a high quality finish and complete uniqueness to these boards, its hard to see how anyone could not want them in their homes. The extra long and wide planks seem to create a flow between the rooms as they connect each area beautifully together.

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